Building a Box
March 2nd, 2008
Last night I stayed up way too late trying to finish yet another Dresden book. At dawn or so, I gave up and conceded defeat to the novel; they’ve been getting longer! Lucky for me Kevin was sleeping in Robin’s room (because we keep each other awake while sick, otherwise) so I did get some sleep. I think that was also because Robin isn’t feeling well but he’s still remarkably upbeat and cheerful for a supposedly sick kid.
Anyhow, this afternoon I went outside and spent four hours working on a box. No pictures until it’s done, which it isn’t yet. But most of it is. I need to make the lid, and the triangular pieces. Not quite sure how to do some of that without a miter saw or table saw. Really long screws doesn’t seem to work.
I quit as night was drawing in, but assembled the pieces as it’s supposed to be when completed so I could check it out. Despite tons of mistakes (lots of extraneous drill holes and unscrewing and rescrewing of screws) and some wood splitting, I feel happy. Exhausted, but happy. I had a plan from the web that I used as a reference point (very simple and easily memorized) but since it was written by somebody with all the saws and took a lot of basics for granted, I had to figure things out as I went along. Did you know some parts of the cedar boards are harder than other parts? The reciprocating saw was a pain in the ass, but the drill was a lot of fun. I think we need to use the circular saw to make the triangle cuts and I’m not sure when that will happen. Hopefully soon. It was really cool to look at the partially assembled box and think ‘I made that!’.
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